From 531a44e9e3477eb836e52b95aebd649743f4fb0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:57:35 +0200 Subject: COMMANDS: assorted formatting fixes * spaces => tabs * long lines wrapped * trailing whitespace killed --- doc/COMMANDS | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/COMMANDS') diff --git a/doc/COMMANDS b/doc/COMMANDS index 8ab7d1e12..19ad373b1 100644 --- a/doc/COMMANDS +++ b/doc/COMMANDS @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ - Music Player Daemon - Commands + Music Player Daemon - Commands - WARNING + WARNING This document has not been updated to reflect recent changes in the MPD protocol. It does not contain all supported commands, and some commands may now take additional arguments. However, @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ This document is intended for client developers, not end users. Format: ------- -If arguments contain spaces, they should be surrounded by double quotation -marks, ". +If arguments contain spaces, they should be surrounded by double quotation +marks, ". command <type arg1> <type arg2> ... explanation: w/ arg1 and arg2 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ that in UTF-8 all standard ansi characters, 0-127, are the same as a standard ansi encoding. Also, no ansi character appears in any multi-byte characters. So, you can use standard C functions like strlen, and strcpy just fine with UTF-8 encoded strings. For example: "OK\n" encoded in UTF-8 is -simply "OK\n". For more information on UTF=8: +simply "OK\n". For more information on UTF=8: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#utf-8 ) Command Completion: @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ For manipulating playlists and playing, there are two sets of commands. One set uses the song id of a song in the playlist, while another set uses the playlist position of the song. The commands using song id's should be used instead of the commands that manipulate and control playback based on playlist -position. Using song id's is a safer method when multiple clients are +position. Using song id's is a safer method when multiple clients are interacting with MPD. Commands: @@ -56,18 +56,18 @@ addid <string path> <int position> _path_ is always a single file or URL _position_ is optional, a negative number means it is relative to the currently playing song in the playlist (if there is one) - adds a song to the playlist (non-recursive) and returns the song id; - example: + adds a song to the playlist (non-recursive) and returns the song id; + example: - addid "foo.mp3" - Id: 999 - OK + addid "foo.mp3" + Id: 999 + OK -clear +clear clears the current playlist increments playlist version by 1 -clearerror +clearerror clear the current error message in status (this is also accomplished by any command that starts playback) @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ kill kill MPD list <string type> <string arg1> - list all tags of _type_ + list all tags of _type_ _type_ should be "album" or "artist" _arg1_ is an optional parameter when type is album, this specifies to list albums by a artist, where artist is specified with @@ -163,13 +163,13 @@ playlistid <int songid> _songid_ is optional and specifies a single song to display info for plchanges <playlist version> - displays changed songs currently in the playlist since + displays changed songs currently in the playlist since _playlist version_ NOTE: to detect songs that were deleted at the end of the playlist, use playlistlength returned by status command. plchangesposid <playlist version> - displays changed songs currently in the playlist since + displays changed songs currently in the playlist since _playlist version_ This function only returns the position and the id of the changed song, not the complete metadata. This is more bandwidth efficient. NOTE: to detect songs that were deleted at the end of the playlist, @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ search <string type> <string what> search is not case sensitive seek <int song> <int time> - seeks to the position _time_ (in seconds) of entry _song_ in the + seeks to the position _time_ (in seconds) of entry _song_ in the playlist seekid <int songid> <int time> @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ swapid <int songid1> <int songid2> update <string path> searches mp3 directory for new music and removes old music from the db - _path_ is an optional argument that maybe a particular directory or + _path_ is an optional argument that maybe a particular directory or song/file to update. returned: updating_db: <int job id> @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ update <string path> in status, while the requested update is happening increments playlist version by 1 NOTE: To update a number of paths/songs at once, use command_list, - it will be much more faster/efficient. Also, if you use a + it will be much more faster/efficient. Also, if you use a command_list for updating, only one update_db job id will be returned per sequence of updates. @@ -284,5 +284,6 @@ command_list_end It does not execute any commands until the list has ended. The return value is whatever the return for a list of commands is. On success for all commands, OK is returned. If a command fails, no more commands -are executed and the appropriate ACK error is returned. If "command_list_ok_begin is used", "list_OK\n" is returned for each successful command executed -in the command list. +are executed and the appropriate ACK error is returned. If +"command_list_ok_begin is used", "list_OK\n" is returned for each +successful command executed in the command list. -- cgit v1.2.3